OPINION - While this face-to-face meeting may have served to raise Maliki’s diplomatic profile, it diminished in the eyes of many, the profile the United States and its professed commitment to justice, human rights, and international law...

In yet another bizarre twist in former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's ongoing underage sex trial, a young woman who attended 'bunga bunga' parties at his house claims she once dressed up as a burlesque version of President Obama as part of the entrainment...